IT HAS BEEN CLAIMED THAT THERE ALWAYS BEEN A GOVERNING BODY,SO WHO HAS BEEN MEMBERS SUPPOSEDLY OF THIS GOVERNING BODY IN THE PAST.
GOVERNING BODY MEMBERS;AD100-1900
by badboy 13 Replies latest jw friends
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5thGeneration
Not sure that's accurate.
It's always been claimed that there have been anointed ones though.
Any references?
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nomoreguilt
Constantine most definately..........Love the sarcasm..........
NMG
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yknot
Nope the Governing Body didn't exist until the 70's
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drew sagan
It's an interesting conversation for sure.
The big question to ask is why didn't the first "governing body" continue to pick successors?
This is a question that has never been discussed in Watchtower literature. Their lack of comment shows what a stretch it is for them to compare their modern governing body to whatever happened thousands of years ago. -
Witness 007
The Watchtower has struggled for years to find groups that represented the anionted....but this has not been sucessfull. There are NO records of groups simular to the Witnesses from 100C.E to 1880.
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Witness 007
If you look at the "Jehovah's Witnesses -Proclaimers" book the history starts in the 1st Century....Martin Luther?.....Charles Russell....????
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badboy
SO MARTIN LUTHER WAS A GOVERNING BODY MEMBER.
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Satanus
The wt has mentioned groups like the waldenses in their older lit as being part of that chain. They later stopped, though. Being specific only gets them into trouble. Safer to be nebulous. The catholic church obiously has the strongest line of direct descent. The baptists even have a better descent line that does the wt.
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stillajwexelder
Ad Ray Franz pointed out, it was never truly a GB until after 1976